Sounds like they've never used waze. It doesn't map all police, tell how many cars are at a spot, driving down road, car numbers, etc. I would expect bank robbers to do something else like monitor police radio which is already open. #waze﻿

An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports on a request from the US National Sheriffs' Association, which "wants Google to block its crowd-sourced traffic app Waze from being able to report the position of police officers, saying the information is putting officer's lives at risk." From the ar...

Because Earth's rotation is slowing ever so slightly, we occasionally need to add an extra second to re-sync our super-precise atomic clocks to our planet's rotation. But you know who's not on board with that? Those damn computers, whose operating systems just can't handle it. The last time we added a leap second in 2012, it wreaked havoc across the Internet.

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Good ideas, but I think the article writer misses the point a bit. Tesla wasn't just arguing for wireless phones. He was saying wireless phones powered wirelessly In addition to communication and he didn't mean powermat or qi. Seems we are a ways off from that still. ﻿

We might complain that it's 2015 and we're still waiting on our hoverboards. But if Nikola Tesla were alive today, he'd probably wonder where the hell our fuel-free, super fast airplanes were. And who could blame him? Fuel-free planes aside, he actually predicted a lot of 21st century technologies quite accurately.

The google OTA for lollipop is a little slow for my liking and I've had to resort to sideloading my Nexus 7. Not sure why they don't have a screen to force updates. I would think it'd still be limiting who gets the updates if you have the user select it manually. ﻿